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Originally posted by titanium wren:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bravus:


Or the other guy who seems to be making an adjustment to a five billion euro machine with a frikkin' wrench!

It's an 11000 euro wrench.

Hawking makes a bet...

Today marks the beginning of one of the most important experiments in human history. One which goal it is to eventually find the question to which the answer is 42.

However, more and more people (who never read Joe Haldeman) are telling me their concerns about it. Even more disturbing, more and more children seem to be, as a friend put it, very emotional about it. They seriously fear the world is going to end.

So I wondered where they got that idea from and started googling. This is one of the most often found paragraphs.

"Someone will spot a light ray coming out of the Indian Ocean during the night and no one will be able to explain it, retired Professor Otto Roessler told London's Mail on Sunday. "Very soon the whole planet will be eaten in a magnificent scenario "” if you could watch it from the moon. A Biblical Armageddon. Even cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible."

One of the biggest representatives of this theory is seems to be a certain Otto Rössler.

He's worried that the Large Hardon Collider may create micro black holes. Based on the hardly accepted Max Abraham theory. But in order to sustain the black hole, the widely accepted Hawking radiation theory must be wrong. Hmm.

According to his wiki entry, he is a biochemist who once wanted to become a monk. Kind of hard to ignore the picture forming behind it.

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Originally posted by Newro:
Even more disturbing, more and more children seem to be, as a friend put it, very emotional about it. They seriously fear the world is going to end.

Well, every generation needs its' bogeyman...

He's a fucking biologist that believes there's an invisible, floating old man watching us from up in the clouds.

Says a lot about those who would listen to him.

Let them know the fear, probably need a little.

Keep them busy.

As long as they don't get really busy.

Once they've made the threat, they've been outed and can be arrested and locked out of harm's way.

_{"Harm" is my new nickname.}

High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile?

Tell, who's gonna be pumping out more radiation? One German biologist, or the CERN facility?

(This would be a good place for an obligatory USAF joke - "Ah, there'll be some Brits there - so Boog'll bomb those anyway" - but no. No I won't.)

Didn't we bomb some Canadians in 2002?

WWII saying...

When the British fire, the Germans duck.
When the Germans fire, the British duck.
When the Americans fire, EVERYBODY ducks.

lmao.

It is funny, because it's true.

Everyone who has a concern wants to tell us that children have the same concern and spend all their time cowering in obsessive fear of it. I spent my entire childhood in the shadow of looming nuclear annihilation, and I don't remember giving much of a shit about anything except having fun. My friends and I thought seeing a nuclear blast would be really cool.

Aye, the whole 'won't you think of the children?' approach to argumentation for any particular view is pretty much an instant fail with me.

When I was growing up in the eighties, the fear of nuclear annihilation was very real for me.

But then again, I spent a lot of time reading books on how to build fallout shelters when I should have been playing British Bulldog out in the playground with all the other maladjusted kids.

Now of course, I could give a shit. Give me beer and a comfy chair and I'll watch the world end anyway you like.

The Day After aired when I was nine, I think. I woke up every few nights after that when the redeye from somewhere flew over (we were on the approach path for Pittsburgh Intl Airport) thinking that I was about to experience the nuclear holocaust.

I felt very much like the kid in that cartoon.